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Dear Investigators,
The confocal microscopy service at the Biomedical Imaging Core Lab will be discontinued effective September 4, 2009. The service will be continued under the Microscopy Core Facility at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. For further information, please contact Dr Andrea Stout at 215-573-3942 or astout@mail.med.upenn.edu
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Biomedical Imaging Facility.
Scientifically speaking, life only exists in forms and images. Every level and stage of life as well as the basic unit of life - cells - can all be visually recorded, analyzed, and made more understandable. It is only natural that both experimental medicine and the science of biology always grow with a microscope.
The Biomedical Imaging Core (BMI) at Penn is a microscopy-based research facility, offering electron microscopy (EM) and confocal microscopy to all life science researchers. It is an NCI/NIH funded and approved key microscopic imaging research facility with over 15 years of service history.
The BMI started as an electron microscopy laboratory and further expanded into a full service, shared resource facility dedicated to all the life sciences research programs on campus. It is also a major component of the Biomolecular and Cellular Resource Center (BMCRC) of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The BMI currently receives major institutional support from the Abramson Cancer Center, the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Department of Ophthalmology, and the School of Medicine for its operation and growth. Its primary goal is to promote biomedical research by offering high quality microscopic imaging services at low cost.
With a team of experienced professional staff and state-of-the-art imaging equipment, the BMI offers Penn users a full spectrum of microscopy related services at low cost: specimen preparation, operation of key equipment, free instruction on all aspects of microscopic studies, and free assistance on the preparation of manuscript and grant applications regarding microscopic studies.
(Updated July 24, 2007)
BioMedical Imaging Facility B-110 Richards Building 3620 Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6082 (215) 898 6730